Offline week meetings CERN – June 25, 2009 CAF user experience Maria Nicassio (INFN Bari)
When started in summer 2008 when I joined the First Physics task force Why to check the First Physics samples several problems spotted and solved to have big samples and short computing time for SPD dN ch /d analysis (however preliminary/complementary studies/checks done privately since ITS recpoints needed for my studies) Where from lxplus What AliAnalysisTaskSPDdNdEta (committed in AliRoot) task to carry out checks on First Physics samples Maria Nicassio (INFN Bari) Offline week meetings - CERN June 25, Access MC and ESD
Maria Nicassio (INFN Bari) Offline week meetings - CERN June 25, 2009 Main problems I had: initial problem with First Physics data samples -> ok nov 2008 my alien username my lxplus one -> ok very useful but hard to run on the last large samples (LHC09a4) system often hanging up last summer when experts on holiday Good things : more and more stable prompt technical support (thanks to Marco, Jan Fiete and Proof developers) web pages and tutorial material exhaustive 3